News: Biodiversity and Sustainability

The awards from the National Science Foundation support innovative work by earlier-career faculty.

The largest males have bigger weapons, but smaller males have other advantages.

In rainforests in Gabon, amphibians with larger toes relative to their body length are found higher in the forest canopy.

The answer matters for people, too, given how insects affect whole ecosystems.

Researchers head to Kenya to unlock the weaknesses of invasive buffelgrass to combat it here in Texas.

The recently announced largest-ever gift to the college is helping to bring new research synergies.

A new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools — most of whom are female — are able to eat larger prey...

The matador bug’s vibrant red hind-leg flags are neither a mating display nor a distraction tactic, they’re part of an elaborate defense strategy.

A much-loved great horned owl named ‘Athena’ is viewable at The University of Texas at Austin center and field station.

New research solves a mystery as to why mitochondria in some plants evolve faster than others.